RE: [seul-edu] How would the kids login in the labs?

["Jason Mellen" <jmellen@intellikey.com>]

If your school is anything like mine then the teachers in charge would be
the best bet. The administration doesn't really care as long as it does what
they want and the board won't ever care as long as there are no problems. In
any case, a teacher talking to admin is much better than a student. Hope
that helps.

Jason Mellen

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-seul-edu@seul.org [mailto:owner-seul-edu@seul.org]On Behalf
Of Kevin Brown
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 4:57 AM
To: seul-edu@seul.org
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] How would the kids login in the labs?




Harry McGregor wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Dennis Brown wrote:
>
> >     I have pondered many Linux setups for schools and one problem has
> > always came up: How do you login in the lab? Since kids login on
> > different machines each time they have to be authorized on every machine
> > they go in. But becuase in schools the user database can reach from 300
> > -> 2000 people it would be a tedious job to update each machine
> > individualy. Is there a way that the schools/companies can update the
> > user database from a central server? Thanks,
>
> You would mostlikely want to use NIS, yes, it's clear text passwords
> (hashed), but it works rather well.  Our student database at corbett is
> about 800 students, and it works just fine.
>
> We are using GDM for the login manager, and have two NIS servers (main,
> and a slave server as a backup).
>
> We are using NFS for the /home and a few other things, and will migrate to
> total nfs root as soon as we can redo the wiring for the lab.
>
>                         Harry
> > Kevin Brown.

Your school already has Linux running? I am only 13 years old and I still
want
to know who I should start convincing first. Whether it be the teachers in
charge (who only know what they really need to), the principal or the board.
I
think our school would be A LOT more stable if Linux was the alternate OS
(we
have techies comming in once a week and are VERY stressed, and I can proove
that :). I am sure I could find hundreds of volunteers that would jump at
helping me so all I have to do it start prooving this is what has to be
done.

Kevin.